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Label:HoZac Records – HZR-177
Series:HoZac Archival – #16
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country:US
Released:2016

A1Girl
A2She Might Look My Way
A3Love You Tonight (Saturday's Gone)
A4Love You All Day Long
A5Zero
A6Every Time I Close My Eyes
A7Take Me Home And Make Me Like It
B1Run Run Away
B2Follow You
B3Free Again
B4All Of The Time
B5Love You Tonight
B6Love You All Day Long
B7Every Time I Close My Eyes

First press was 500 copies with green hype sticker on shrink-wrap.
300 additional copies were pressed with a blue hype sticker. Includes printed inner sleeve.

Recorded at Ardent Studios, Memphis, TN, between September 1975 and July 1976; some overdubs done at Shoe Recording, Memphis, summer of 1976; several tracks recorded at a "live" audition for Columbia Records at CBS Studios on September 8, 1976, with minor overdubs added later.
Restored October 1992. Tracks B5 to B7 are alternate versions.

There are discrepancies between the songwriter credits on the sleeve and center labels; the credits on the labels are more

"Prix are a legendary lost band, a power pop supergroup of sorts that fell into the cracks between album rock and the emerging new wave in the mid-'70s. Fronted by Jon Tiven and Tommy Hoehn, the band was mostly a studio-based project featuring other Memphis popsters such as bassist Rick Clark, and featuring contributions and productions by former Big Star co-leaders Chris Bell and Alex Chilton, and studio mavericks Jim Dickinson and Richard Rosebrough. Despite several attempts, Prix never landed a major-label deal and only issued an EP on the legendary label Ork Records from NYC and a single on Miracle Records, which became collectors’ items in the pop underground circuit over the next few decades.

The group's recorded output bears a great similarity to Big Star, particularly the music on Radio City but with a sweet melancholy undercurrent reminiscent of Bell’s work on #1 Record. There are also traces of other power pop icons like Badfinger, The Stories and The Raspberries scattered throughout the songs, plus Prix could also touch on both the hazy, narcotic undertow of Big Star’s third album (the swirling "Zero”). In fact, the most impressive thing about Prix is how they worked very familiar territory yet wound up with a distinctive feel of their own -- they were a harder-rocking band than most power pop groups, yet they were also tight, tuneful, and muscular songwriters, which turned out to be a dynamite combination. Prix didn't last long, but they did wind up with sparkling, diamond-hard pop gems that will prove to be irresistible to power pop fanatics."

"Memphis power pop studio sessions from BIG STAR members that will blow your head apart, featuring TOMMY HOEHN, JON TIVEN, CHRIS BELL, ALEX CHILTON, even HILLY MICHAELS (SPARKS) and JIM DICKINSON! A true missing link in the Mid-South pop underground circa 1975-76 that lots of folks still don't know about, all recorded at Ardent Studios and every song a rocker. Bon Scott fronting a rowdier Big Star? Don't think you've heard it all, the rarest and most hard-rocking of all the post-Big Star side projects is finally here."

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